New York/Washington — One of America’s food giants has taken to the media to defend its efforts to keep employees safe and supply food to the nation, in the face of criticism that workers at meat plants have not been adequately safeguarded against the coronavirus.

Smithfield Foods took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to accuse its critics of false narratives and misinformation and to defend its operations to keep the nation fed during the pandemic...

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